Weight loss is one of the most prevalent goals sought by spa clients. When diet and exercise fail to achieve results, machine-assisted fat loss can provide a safer option than liposuction or extreme diet and exercise plans, which can be harmful or even fatal in worst case scenarios.

The Pagani Cryo STAR is a spa-based, cutting-edge thermal shock fat reduction device that can help your clients break their fat loss barriers and finally reach their weight loss goals. To understand how Cryo STAR can help, it’s important to explain that there is a difference between fat loss and weight loss. 

Fat Loss vs. Weight Loss - What’s the Difference?

Weight loss can result from a variety of changes in the body, not just loss of fat. Weight loss can include loss of water, muscle mass, and other body tissues. Our weight even fluctuates with bowel movements and urination. 

When trying to lose weight, we’re attempting to lose fat, not muscle or fluid. Yet most fad diets result in loss of muscle and water, not fat. To lose fat, we must break down and metabolize adipose tissue, which is where the body stores excess energy for future use. 

Weight loss is an ancillary benefit to fat loss, not the ultimate goal. To achieve fat loss, we sometimes need help beyond traditional exercise and diet. Eating right and exercising are vital to reaching fat loss goals, but they aren’t always enough because some fat is harder to break down -- especially the fat that accumulates in unsightly areas like the underarms, hips, stomach, thighs, and buttocks.

How Fat Accumulates - Adipogenesis, Lipogenesis, and Lipolysis Explained

The human body has a specific process for storing excess energy. It uses this energy when food is scarce. Because of excess fat and sugar consumption, sedentary lifestyle, and environmental toxins, this important biological process has become deranged in many, if not the vast majority of adults in western nations. 

It helps to understand how this biological process works to understand how it can break.

Adipogenesis-Creating Fat Cells

Adipogenesis is the process through which we create new fat cells. These new fat cells are called adipocytes. When we consume more calories than we use, especially in sugar and fat, our body creates new fat cells to store this energy. These new cells have the ability to expand and store more fat if excess calorie consumption continues.

Lipogenesis-Storing Fat

Lipogenesis is the process of synthesizing fatty acids and triglycerides, the primary components of dietary fat, from our dietary components. Excessive calorie intake, particularly from sugar and highly-refined carbohydrates, increases lipogenesis and subsequent fat storage.

Lipolysis-Breaking Down Fat

Lipolysis breaks down stored fat (triglycerides) into smaller molecules called fatty acids and glycerol, which is then released into the bloodstream for use in other tissues. Lipolysis is regulated by hormones such as 

• cortisol, 

• epinephrine, 

• norepinephrine, and 

• enzymes like hormone sensitive lipase and adipose triglyceride lipase. 

When we exercise or fast, this is the process that makes our stored fat available for use. 

When our hormones and metabolic systems are unbalanced, adipogenesis and lipogenesis outpace lipolysis. In other words, we store more fat than we use. Worse, it becomes harder to mobilize that stored fat if we lack the enzymes and hormones necessary to mobilize it.

How Tough Fat is Eliminated - Diet, Exercise, and Beyond

The most popular way to lose excess fat is to create a calorie deficit. But this doesn’t always work due to deranged metabolic processes. When diet fails, people often add more exercise, but we only have so many hours in a day and many of us work sedentary jobs, which further reduces time available for exercise.

Extreme calorie restriction and exercise may follow unsuccessful attempts to lose weight, but this is neither sustainable nor advisable as these unhealthy routines often end in injury. This is why more people are turning to machine-assisted techniques to get through their weight loss hurdles.

Cryo STAR is a Powerful Body Shaping Treatment

Cryo STAR is a safe, painless, and non-invasive thermal shock device. It freezes unwanted fat cells to shrink or even destroy them. It can be used on any area of the body, including underarms and the face. The procedure typically takes 20 to 40 minutes to complete depending on the size of the treatment area. 

Cryo STAR induces apoptosis when the body can't, which helps to kill unwanted fat cells. According to some studies, fat freezing with Cryo STAR can result in inches of body fat loss in as little as 30 to 45 minutes. 

Touch screen controls and thermal vision cameras help Cryo STAR operators specifically target problem areas while leaving surrounding tissues undisturbed. The customizable settings are designed to target different tissues depending on the desired treatment goals such as:

• Reducing inflammation,

• Boosting metabolism,

• Relieving pain, 

• And reducing fatigue.

Cryo STAR is a Safer Treatment

Unlike other more invasive devices that use cold and suction, Cryo STAR alternates heat and cold flows to gently destroy and remove unwanted fat. Surrounding tissues are undamaged and the procedure is painless. Many clients find the treatment to be pleasant and relaxing, leaving them looking forward to their next visit instead of dreading it. Liposuction and harmful vacuum-based treatments are no longer necessary with this revolutionary new treatment!